Painted Bed Poems

Name: Painted Bed Poems
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ISBN: 9780618340750

ISBN-10: 0618340750

ISBN-13: 9780618340750

Edition: 2002

Authors: Donald Hall, Donald Hall

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Affirmation To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content. But a marriage, that began without harm, scatters into debris on the shore, and a friend from school drops cold on a rocky strand. If a new love carries us past middle age, our wife will die at her strongest and most beautiful. New women come and go. All go. The pretty lover who announces that she is temporary is temporary. The bold woman, middle-aged against our old age, sinks under an anxiety she cannot withstand. Another friend of decades estranges himself…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Donald Hall ranks among our foremost writers. He is the author of numerous books of verse & prose, including "Without," "The Museum of Clear Ideas," & "The Old Life."



The Painted Bed



Kill the Day



Deathwork



The After Life



The Purpose of a Chair


After Homer


Barber


Folding Chair


Her Intent


Retriever


Sweater


Another Christmas


Deathwork


The Perfect Life


Distressed Haiku


Easters


Throwing the Things Away


Ardor



Her Garden


Her Garden


Hiding


Summer Kitchen


Wool Squares


Proctor Graveyard


Burn the Album


The Touch


Pond Afternoons


Hours Hours


The Wish



Daylilies


Daylilies on the Hill 1975-1989



Ardor


The Old Lover


Conversation's Afterplay


Charity and Dominion


Razor


Buoyancy


"Maison d'Aujourd'hui"


Impossible Lovers


The Peaceable Kingdom


Sun


Villanelle


Love Poem


Dread and Desire


Out of Bed


Affirmation